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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8 | Part 1, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is George Bull's demeanor when he arrives at the house following the fight?
(a) Worried and in fear.
(b) Calm and controlled.
(c) Nervous, but in control.
(d) Frantic and upset.

2. What do Bessie and Tom Black Bull gather willow shoots and other plants for?
(a) Lodge mats.
(b) Winter basketry.
(c) Winter fires.
(d) Lodge insulation.

3. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?
(a) Keeping his spirit in tune with nature.
(b) Making pots from clay.
(c) Farming corn.
(d) Hunting buffalo.

4. What is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
(a) Hunting and fishing.
(b) Raising hogs.
(c) Raising chickens and turkeys.
(d) Farming corn.

5. The main character, a Ute boy, first learns the Indian legends, keeps them alive, and then lives with white men. What happens to him, ultimately?
(a) His 'old ways are integrated with his new life.
(b) He absorbs the white man's ways, and forever forgets the 'old ways'.
(c) The 'old ways' are driven from his life.
(d) The white man's ways gradually fade the 'old ways' from memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bessie Black Bull relieved about upon her return to the mountains following her second trip to Jim Thatcher's store?

2. What is Bessie's response to the situation her man has gotten into?

3. What happens with George Black Bull's body?

4. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?

5. What does Frank No Deer buy with the $15 he steals?

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